Jira Service Management is a robust cloud-based platform that enables organizations to manage their IT services and support operations centrally. It features a plethora of tools, including incident management, change management, problem management, and service...
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What is Remote Admin for Jira?
What is Remote Admin for Jira? Remote Admin for Jira is a fully managed service offered by RightStar that enables organizations to delegate Jira administration tasks to experts in the field. The service provides a remote administrator responsible for maintaining and...
Understanding the Benefits of Jira Service Desk
Jira Service Desk is a highly regarded IT service management (ITSM) software platform that enables organizations to streamline their IT service operations. The platform provides a central help desk system that allows IT teams to manage support requests, optimize...
Harnessing the Power of Automation with Atlassian Tools
Automation is essential in today’s workplaces, allowing organizations to streamline their operations and improve efficiency. Atlassian tools offer a range of automation capabilities that enable organizations to get the most out of their everyday tasks. In this...
Keeping Track of Your Physical Assets in Jira
We all know how great Jira Service Desk is for helping us track issues as they come up. And many use the Insight Asset Management app from Riada in the Atlassian Marketplace to tie assets or other configuration items in the CMDB to those Change, Incident, Problem, and...
Calculating Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR)
Reporting on MTTR There is a long discussion on calculating MTTR here. But short form: It’s the sum of Resolution time (in days) divided by the number of incidents. Get the Resolution Time – I’m going to use “Closed Date,” which isn’t quite accurate. If you use...
Avoiding ITSM Feature Overload
Choosing Tools Your Organization Needs IT Service Management (ITSM) is an organizational process that ensures operational teams manage, implement, and provide IT services to stakeholders. These processes include the design, development, and delivery of services such...
Getting Product and IT Teams Under the Same Umbrella with Jira Service Management
A primary recommendation in Gartner’s 2022 Strategic Roadmap for IT Service Management is to enable IT and product teams to practice ITSM. In other words, you need IT and product teams to work collaboratively under the same umbrella. Information technology service...
Remedyforce: Spiffing up the Self-Service Portal
We have gotten comments from customers that they would like more control over the Remedyforce Self-Service portal. There has been a way to do that for a while, but I only recently tried it out. It’s something called Salesforce Experience (used to be called Community);...
BMC Helix Dashboards: Creating a basic report
Recently someone asked if it was possible to create a basic report using BMC Dashboards – a table report with columns such as Incident number, summary, customer name, assigned group, priority, status, etc. And yes, those reports can be created! For example, here is a...